Walking to the train from work this evening I passed an poster proclaiming, "Coming soon! Moonvertising! Look for the next full moon!" With this rather pulp-looking illustration of, like, a sort of ray gun projecting an image onto the moon. (I was walking fast, I didn't get a thorough look ( Read more... )

Not one but two-count-them-two nightmares last night, which was really great and exciting and all. Love it. ( Read - if you dare! )

I've been going through Origami to Astonish and Amuse - I don't know why I didn't own this book before now, because it is (shocker!) both astonishing and amusing. Walking Boat and Running Car are my favorites at this point - also the Man Swatter, although I need to get some larger paper, because I only have six-inch origami paper, and the larger ( Read more... )

OMG squee! Look at my shiny new computer - it runs XP! Now I'm only one major operating system behind! (And, honestly, who has Vista anyway? I mean, I need to replace Typhoid Mary The Plague-Ridden Laptop, so I'll end up with Vista sooner or later. (Unless I decide to invest in a computer that will run Operating System Ten, right riccobot? Snerk.)) And a ( Read more... )